Michel Sardou is back! Tuesday October 3, 2023, the 76-year-old artist gave the first concert of his tour in Rouen. A tour which promises to be rich in emotions, but which the former sidekick of Johnny Hallyday would never have started without the insistence of his wife, Anne-Marie Périer. It was she who pushed the singer to return to service after a long absence.
“I have nothing to do with my return. For nothing ! I didn’t want to come back… But I was fooled in a big way by my wife.”, confided Michel Sardou on November 10 in an interview given to Parisian. “It started a year ago. She was coming back from the market and she said to me like this: ‘I listened to a song of yours on the radio, it’s really good, why have you never sung it on stage? You should'”, he added. And to continue: “She finally persuaded me. Anyway, she threatened to leave me and go back to her brother… She blackmailed me!“
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Eddy Mitchell draws a line under his career
If Michel Sardou has made the decision to return to the forefront, Eddy Mitchell, for his part, does not intend to follow in the footsteps of his counterpart. If he agreed to interpret The last session And On credit and in stereo in the company of Paul Personne, Axel Bauer and Thomas Dutronc on October 5 at La Défense Arena, he no longer wishes to be in the spotlight.
“I was happy to sing with Thomas Dutronc, Paul Personne and Axel Bauer. I was told it was okay. We gave the change, but I don’t like this room, it’s too big, cold. It was my first time there and I won’t go back.”, he emphasized in the columns of Parisian / Today in France before specifying that he would not have the courage to take the microphone again like Michel Sardou… To the great dismay of his fans…
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